Miscellaneous Myths: Fionn Mac Cumhaill
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Hey, remember Cu Chulainn?
(five thousand comments complaining about my pronunciation rain from the heavens)
You DO! I'm so glad! Anyway, Fionn isn't DIRECTLY related to him, but the exploits of Fionn Mac Cumhaill make up the Fenian cycle of Irish mythology, while our buddy Cu's make up the Ulster Cycle. Two badasses, both alike in dignity, etc etc. And while there's significantly less mass murder and anime-levels of over-the-top combat, the Fenian cycle gives us romance, bromance, action, and the best kind of ending - a total LACK of an ending!
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The fact that fionn is ment to return in Ireland’s greatest hour of need is terrifying once you realize that all of Irish history was NOT our hour of greatest need
Okay but what the fuck is meant to be worse than the fucking English?
@@Crowgale IDK maybe more engilsh?
@@Crowgale the welsh
@@stormchsr02 Those bastards are up to something.
@@maxobb7259 Or Worse The English and Welsh.
The apocalypse: **happens**
Literally every ancient and medieval hero that's been dead for hundreds or thousands of years: "Hello there"
General Kenobi
General Kenobi
Fate/Requiem in a nutshell.
@@andrewcapra7153 most of the Fate series in a nutshell
@Stumpi Capra that is literally the ending of the first arc of FGO
"Defend Ireland in its greatest time of need.". Irish in 1169, 1315, 1529, 1601, 1649, 1796, 1798, 1845, 1919, and late 1960s to 1998: Where were you!
They're waiting until Tayto goes out of business, duh /s
*Greatest* time of need. That apparently has not happened yet
That's the problem with superlatives, there hasn't been a bad situation in history that I can't think of numerous ways it could have gone way worse than it did. Greatest hour of need is sufficiently vague that you can always just say that it hasn't happened yet, no matter how bad things get.
@@Great_Olaf5 Also it is a great motivator when things are terrible: ”Don't worry, the Fianna aren't here. It'll be worse at some point “ (Yay?)
@@fisch37 The FIanna aren't here, things aren't as bad as they could be.
"He could only access his wisdom by sucking his thumb" Ok that confirms it, he was definitely a real person. What happened there is he did that thing some people do where they stick their thumb between their lip and their teeth and people saw this and thought he had to suck his thumb to do high level pondering.
Reminds me of L from deathnote kinda
@@goblinsinc.8274
Oh right! I actually started watching Death Note a few weeks ago, and when I saw L do that I was like, «I swear this reminds me of something…»
I always knew babies were keepers of all knowledge.
Perhaps he had ADHD. People with that disorder (myself included) often find that tactile stimulation helps them focus, which can lead to habits like nail-biting.
Maybe people were flaming him for sucking his thumb so he told them some story about a magic salmon lmao
“He spots this gorgeous deer” Straying into Greek myth a bit there
It's probably Zeus going to f**k the deers wife
Fer Dorich turned Sabdh into a deer because she refused to date him. hmmmm
Sounds like something Zeus would do
Literally the myth of Io 😂
*Zeus has joind the chat*
zeus has probably turned into everything to seduce women. from bulls to light beams. he has also turned into an ant
I wonder if Finn was a real person and the whole “accessing infinite wisdom” thing was a story spawn from a personal quirk of “biting his thumb when he thinks deeply.”
Most likely
Pretty much every wild story can be boiled down to an ordinary occurrence, historical event or personality quirk, notably:
The Flood Story (various)
Adam & Eve (can elaborate)
Fionn mac Cumhaill
Cu Chulainn
King Arthur
mf THOR
Merlin (probably)
Pan Twardowski / Faustus
etc.
@Lee O’kelly They just typed it out how you pronounce it, or how the video pronounced it at least.
Fionn mac Cumhaill, patron saint of people who stim.
every Aztec warrior and all of the Aztec gods and goddesses: *yo.*
the Killjoys from the My Chemical Romance album Danger Days and from _The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys_ comics: *pulls out Ray guns* heyo.
Everyone in my imagination: hello! (hi in a bunch of languages)
Doctor Strange: "Is that everyone?"
Wong: "Like you wanted more?"
Suddenly every 'King in the Mountain' hero shows up.
King Arthur: "Sorry we're late guys. What'd we miss?"
Every famous war hero shows up
“What did we miss”
Hades: better call every god/Goddess of the underworld now
*Doctor Strange:* "Is that everyone?"
*Wong:* "What, you wanted more?"
*Arthur Pendragon, The Sleeping Knights, Fionn mac Cumhaill, St John the Evangelist, GENGHIS KHAN, Kukai, Bernardo Carpio, Gesar of Ling, Mher, MERLIN, Thomas the Rhymer, Bran the blessed giant, Gerald FitzGerald, Sir Francis Drake, CHARLEMAGNE, Barbarossa, Enceladus, TYPHON, Constantine I, Constantine XI, John III Doucaz Vatatzes, Csaba, King Saints Stephen & Ladislaus, Matthias Corvinus, The Golem of Prague, MOTHERFUCKING KING DAVID, **_VLAD THE IMPALER,_** Ogier the Dane, Olaf Trygvasson, Vainamoinen, The Knights of Alleberg, Vaclav of Bohemia, William Tell +2 other Tell family members (probably just barely below the cumhaill line of being remembered as folk heroes), Kay Kosrow, Montezuma, Tecumseh and Loki:* "Hello boys - we're baaaack!"
@@theradioactiveplayer3461 half of these are Villains
@@theradioactiveplayer3461 Vlad the Impaler is a king under the mountain!!?
Makes sense since the guy is supposedly Dracula.
So yeah, when the apocalypse comes we'll either have a bloodthirsty vampire or a guy that impales people on stakes for funsies. Either way, I pity whoever has the misfortune to encounter him in battle.
@@theradioactiveplayer3461 Tony: FRIDAY, what are they firing at?
FRIDAY: Something just entered the upper atmosphere.
Jesus and John the Evangelist: *descend from heaven* Where's the Antichrist?
I love how Red's default wholesome couple doing cute couple things is one of them laying they're legs across the others lap and reading. Honestly I feel that on a spiritual level
Because that's how a relationship should be
I wish I could do that
Man I want that
Can we just appreciate that the fisherman didn't go all angry pissed off at Fionn for getting the knowledge and instead was like: "Eh, its fine, here have the rest of the magic knowledge fish!"
I guess he had all the wisdom he needed.
@@TlalocTemporal nice
In the version I learnt as a child, Finnegas was actually trying to give it to Fionn to test if he was a hero or not, that's why it showed up when Fionn arrived. Then he tested him again to see if he was a hero, to which point Fionn didn't eat it, but instead was tending it for Finnegas, then he put it in his mouth and Finnegas returned to tell Fionn that it was his. That proved Fionn was a worthy hero.
He made the choice for the highest good of all. It was wise.
It was his own fault for leaving the Salmon of Wisdom he'd spent 7 years fishing for in order to do the _far more important...._ *data not found*
Soooo basicly....
You know you're destined to glory when your name is "Blondie Mac Cool"
Well it's more. "Blondie Son of Cool"
Sadly, its writen like a pornstar's name
Imagine just dying everyone (the finna) hair blonde then change it name to the “blondie” led by blondie mc cool😆
The enemy shall feared the blondie gang
@@rodrigoestebanmartinezardi6661 I remember telling this story via text once and forgot all the people I was telling it to weren't Irish and didn't automatically know how Cumhail is pronounced. a lot of jokes were made...
There's a moral to King in the Mountain stories that I feel often gets overlooked. The implication I receive from stories such as this is that the apocalypse ("greatest time of need") is when the problems have spiraled so out of control that the people themselves can no longer fix it. As such, the fact that these legendary heroes haven't appeared yet means that no matter how bad things are now, they can get worse. However, it also means that the problem hasn't gotten to the point that the people themselves cannot fix it. In other words, while it could be taken to mean "it can always be worse than it is now," it can also mean "you can still fix it." The apocalypse isn't here yet, and the problems that currently plague us aren't something we cannot fix ourselves if we put in the effort. That's the moral I see from stories such as this, and while it could be double-edged in its meaning, it does still carry an important lesson and hope spot.
Are your problems half empty or half full
@@beesghiishyys_foui0485 or is the glass the problem?
@@williamchamberlain2263 BEWARE THE CUP FOR IT IS THE ROOT OF ALL PROBLEMS
I like both of these interpretation
There is also a saying, I think Hindu, that approximately translates to English "Everything will be alright in the end. If it is not alright, it is not the end."
"Blondie obtains knowledge of infinitely wise salmon by sucking his thumb" SOUNDS like a stand alone shitpost, but no, there's an entire mythos behind said shitpost.
Aaaaand this is why I love mythology.
Peak meme material imo
@@lisakanzira6765 Yes
Being a shapeshifter that gets fucked by a horse and then birthed a speedy 8 legged horse is also a good shitpost turned myth
@@cobaltordinaire5219 Do you mean to tell me that someone shitposted about Loki _first_ and that was the start of that one myth about him?
Fun fact: Oisín means "fawn".
He basically called his son "Deer son".
Badum, tss
Also, OisÍn is uh-sheen
And my son, Oisín, is due today.
So, his name is basically exactly the same as Shikamaru?
@@Great_Olaf5 yup
Smerg the Dargon to be fair the kids only point of reference for naming conventions is the idea that he was essentially called “blondie mccoolface” so it shouldn’t be much of a surprise...
*walks up to a lesbian couple* so which one of you is the warrior mum and which one is the Druid mum
I (as a lesbian) greatly approve of this
Garnet:
"Both."
Neither, as the Druid has a husband, Fiacal mac Conchin.
www.yourirish.com/folklore/fionn-maccumhal
@@maggiemcgonnell6754 which one are you?
@@mauirandall8176 I'm a druid
Here's a great idea for a novel or TV show.
All these "King under the Mountain" stories are true but they all start appearing at once
Nah they all show up late because they have a weekly cribbage night together and the Darkest Hour occurs in the middle of one of them and they were too busy playing to show up.
😜
That is Called the Fate Series in a Nut-Shell.
@@peterwindhorst5775 That... Is annoyingly accurate.
@@peterwindhorst5775 Hey! Thats the comment I wanted to make!
I think it'd be funny if they made a team or something and then random apocalypses from mythology just start spawning around the world. Fun ideas would be: Typhon escapes imprisonment under Etna, Ragnarok, the moon Coyolxauhqui and the sun Huitzilopochtli have a showdown, maybe even the Rapture if someone could make that work.
Explanations
1. It is technically impossible, or presumed impossible, for Typhon to escape Etna in Greek mythology, but it'd still be fun to see.
2. Ragnarok is kinda self-explanatory, norse apocalypse, gods die, Baldur resurrected, new and better world.
3. In Aztec myth the moon is a head of Huitzilopochtli's sister, Coyolxauhqui, and the stars his brothers are all trying to kill him. Huitzilopochtli is the only thing standing between the continued life on Earth and the destruction of everything.
4. Rapture is pretty self-explanatory too, it's just the Christian apocalypse.
My husband is a descendant from the Wallace Clan and knows a fair bit about his family's culture from his own research. I showed this video to him and he was smiling, nodding, and saying "yeah" or "yup" after every story beat. Then when Red was saying "Look, I'm sorry about pronouncing the names wrong. Here are the reasons why," He sighed, nodded, and said "Yeah, I would have pronounced Fer Doirich with more of an "I" sound." I thought that was funny and felt I should share. He loved the video, btw.
this is so wholesome thank u for sharing
Your husband is cool
@@camilaalmiron5588 I think you mean descended from cool.
Whats the meaning of life the universe and everything
Fion: *sucks thumb, "42"
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is a great series.
Get the fuck outta' here
Definitely not Big on Poetry...😂
@Elliott Hearn r/ihadastroke ?
Normal People Like Me It seriously is
I now want to write a story where all of those "King under the Mountain" archetypes wake up at once, assume this means that The End Has Come, and in their panic and confusion accidentally start the apocalypse.
yes, i would read that.
I would also read that
I was thinking the same thing, except seeing a team of all those guys fighting a great evil would be cooler than Avengers Infinity War.
Please, do it. Or I might.
I thought the exact same thing!😃
“Everyone gets really mad when you use the one that you dont”. When you live in Dublin but your irish teacher is from Donegal in a nutshell.
2:40
High-king: Sooo do you feel like proving yourself?
Fionn: DO I?
Random Fianna: Yep that's Cumhaill's son alright
“So guess cool is your middle name?”
“Last name. Being cool is an afterthought for me 😎”
*NCIS scream in the background
*dies of awe*
I love the running joke you have in the myths of heroes.
"Hey kid, you like proving yourself?"
"Do I!"
Latverian Baklava SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!!!
You call it a running joke, but it's pretty literal. Especially if your name is Cu Chulainn who literally asked for a sword the moment he started hearing a prophecy about "anyone who takes up arms today will be a Great Hero", then shrugs it off when he gets back to hear the last part about dying young. I think Achillies had a similar story.
The fact that the US Navy sweetly says missing submarines are "still on patrol" combined with this "King in the Mountain" motif really makes me think...
Vainamoinen and the gang are gonna come sailing back leading a bunch of US Submarines in the apocalypse XD
Most badass thing I saw in my head today thanks
not gonna lie, that's awesome
Kings in the mountains come riding in subs to fight in Ragnarok
"Spartans never die, Jorge. They're just missing in action."
Everyone in the story: "Oh Fionn must be so cool cause of he's related to that Cumhaill guy!"
Me: 50% Cumhaill, 450% badass druid and warrior moms
Wait.
Fionn means light-haired?
... That puts Finn from Adventure Time into perspective....
While it might sometimes be a coincidence I've found that a lot of series contain subtle references to their inspirational sources. I'm pretty sure that naming Finn after a legendary hero was no mistake on his creators' parts.
What’s also interesting is that she drew Druid mom as hunter princess from adventure time. (I think that’s her name)
@@yoschiii Huntress Wizard, but close enough
@@yoschiii THAT'S WHAT I SAID
@@yoschiii also, huntress wizard
Am I interested in ancient literature? No. Do I know anything about Ireland? No. Did I still watch this video and all of the miscellaneous myths and love them to death? Yes.
HilariouslyScary Same brah
I love ancient literature and vaguely know about Ireland.
Red's videos transform me into a beast who will stop at nothing!... To watch them.
I like acient litature but that is the only thing
Same lol
I'm intrigued in ancient literature, but I'm clueless about Ireland. I'm only great in Asian/African/American myths/stories
2:42 There's just something about a Faerie Prince showing up to put the High King's retinue to sleep and light his shit on fire for decades (while no one's able to stop him) that I love. It's so bitshit insane and petty that I can believe it's Irish mythology.
I can now just imagine the end of the world starts and all of a sudden an army of screaming irishmen run out of a random cave, meet up with Merlin and Bl. Charlemagne, and go fight some aliens or something.
Now that is a hilarious idea
The aliens immediately retreat, apologising for the mess
You're talking about Fate grand order my dude
If I were an alien there, I’d retreat at once.
The one thing Irish people have kept from their culture of old Celtic is being terrifying when screaming while running at stuff!
GIVE ME THIS MOVIE HOLLYWOOD, YOU COWARDS
I want to be raised by so many people in this story. Fighter mom, Druid mom, asshole musical fairy prince...EVIL DRUID? Sign me up! I won't use my powers for evil....maybe.
He rolled well on his RPG background table.
Even if you do, you get to be redeemed by a dashing and beautiful hero(ine) through the power of love.
So win-win all around!
@sander heutink or get forced to have his rape(bribe/coercion) babies (if you're hot).
Definitely a cross-class approach to child rearing.
Yes Bloody Amazing
I was once asked why Irish people fought so much.
I then asked them to pronounce some names from their myths.
They got the point.
Iconic.
"Dad, why are you stuffing a bunch of weird ancient coins into that bag?"
"Shh, son, we need to be ready for the apocalypse"
Finn losing his wife to a man who rejected her and having only his and her's child as proof of her existence, because she's probably been killed before Finn found their child, is very heartbreaking to me, and really relatable to many present people and stories.
It's sad that all the comment focuses on the rad aspect of Finn returning on the apocalypse to defend his country, and not on this sad part of Finn story.
I was looking for this comment, thank you
Fionn. “Ow! I burned my thumb.” *Sucks thumb* *Gains all knowledge of the universe* “I understand EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!” So he’s basically a badass Irish Linus.
*O H. M Y. G O D. Y E S.*
Random Irish Dude: Hey, Fionn what is the meaning of all existence?
Fionn: Hold up, I got this one.
*Put's thumb in mouth*
Heck yeah. He was the thumb sucking badass. The one and only.
Hahahahaha. Imagine it was your toe instead.
I've never laughed harder
"And before you ask, every source I found was very non-specific about the nature of Bodhmall and Liath's relationship so interpret it however you want."
Oh, I will.
She is bad at research. A cursory read at any source will let you know that the Druidess(who was Finn's Aunt on his father's side) was married to Fiacal mac Conchinn.
www.yourirish.com/folklore/fionn-maccumhal
@@levongevorgyan6789 so yeah
1 Yourirish does not specify the relationship between Bodmall and and Liath either. [(...)Both women raised him in secret in the forest of Sliabh Bladhma (Slieve Bloom Mountains) and taught him all the knowledge they had including how to be a warrior.]
2. Yourirish does not have a citation note so we can't know from where the research Is coming. Thus making it a unreliable source.
So your link a) proves What red Is saying and b) is not reliable.
@@vago1996porlaputa www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095816199
Fiacclach mac Conchinn, also known as Fiacail mac Codhna: Fosterfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill, as well as his uncle by MARRIAGE, he gave the hero a spear which never missed its mark. He advised Fionn in wooing. Certain that he was a faster runner than his foster-son, Fiacclach challenged him to a foot-race and weighted himself down with a handicap of twelve leaden balls. But as their race progressed, Fiacclach began to drop the balls and Fionn picked them up, reversing the handicap. Even with this switch of the burden, both runners finished at the same time. Fiacclach is the father of Moling Lúath, Fionn's foster-brother
Bodball, Fionn's aunt on his father's side, was not only married to Fiaccal Mac Conchinn, but had a son with him.
@@levongevorgyan6789 you know your myths i suppose?
@@umeshkumarasamy6608 I love myths, why?
5:22 In Poland, in Tatra Mountains ( (specifically near Giewont) we have a whole bunch of sleeping knights, who are also supposed to come back at the right time ... taking into account Polish history, they must really doze hard. XD
"BRO WAKE UP SHIT'S GOING DOWN AND WE NEED YOU TO SAVE US"
"just five more minuuuutesss"
“Hey kid, you like proving yourself?”
“DO I?!”
“Yep, that’s Cumhaill’s kid all right.”
This. This joke encapsulates your sense of humor and why people love your videos perfectly, Red.
Can somebody write an urban fantasy where all the kings in the mountains, across cultures, awake during the apocalypse? And there could be five of them that fill the D&D-style five-man band setup. How awesome would that be?
on it!
SCP universe way ahead of you
@Keika you mean king arthur always trying to kill fionn and charlemagne having to mediate/stop their childish bickering?
its even funnier when you imagine this scene with their fate counterparts
leonardo luiz lima Now that would be an awesome movie. Just that part there.
hey @@dalmaronthefirst2237 could you tell me which one is that scp???
If Ireland hasn't hit it's greatest time of need yet then god help them when it actually happens
Joseph Krakowski things have been bad here but nothing's ever been apocalyptic
Whatever comes our way next we'll get through it one way or another
@@sentry1996 What about the potato famine?
Rambard we survived it didn’t we
@@sentry1996 other than those about hundred thousand who didn't.
Waffles I never said it wasn’t probably one of the most tragic and horrible moments of our history that was most likely apocalyptic to whoever lived it (as most horrors are)
I just meant that it wasn’t the full end to us since we’re still here and we’ll keep going
Finn was raised by a fighter mom and a druid mom. what an awesome childhood
I’d love to see a story where a bunch of these Kings under the Mountains team up, avengers style, and take down the apocalypse. Just imagining it is awesome.
That's basically the plot of Fate/Grand Order. It's the only series where you'll see the Knights of the Roundtable, Genji Clan, Knights of Fianna, and the Knights of Charlemagne banding together to fight off an alien apocalypse
"Do you like proving yourself?" "Do I!?" I'm sensing a theme here between this and Heracles and...like...everyone
And like 99% of any of the mythological hero's
I will skin 6,000 dire leopards just 'cause a guy with a question mark over his head told me to. Didn't even pay attention to the why of it.
Interesting fact, some say the briefly mentioned Golem of Prague DID come back during Nazi occupation to fight Nazi's. I've always thought this deserved a graphic novel style web comic.
I'd read it
Like in supernatural?
There's this great book of short sorry about monster's that litorly that. If i rememder the name of the book ill post it.
@@madmachanicest9955 Besides Michael Chabon's "Kavalier and Clay" novel (which explores the idea of literal and metaphorical nazi-fighting golems), I think there's actually an illustrated graphic novel about that somewhere!
@@Colesign the book i was thinking of is call THE MONSTER'S CORNER it is a short story anthology full of storys told form the point of view of the monster . in one story Frankenstein monsters fights Nazis and is believed to be the Golm of myth
I will never forgot the moment when I was looking for a mythical creatures to draw by going down wikipedia and then I see THE SALMON OF WISDOM!!!!
Wisdom fish c:
The F I S H
Feesh
Every rando king in myths and legends: "Hey kid, wanna prove yourself?"
Literally almost every single prophesized/demigod kid going on an adventure: *"WOULD I?!"*
I ship Druid mom and Fighter mom
Same
As a Fighter mom myself, it'd be weird for me not to ship them.
*_Y E S_*
Where can I find ship art!?
I *D E M A N D* FANFICTION!
...This salmon of wisdom seems strangely familiar to a czech legend, which has the same wisdom fish...
Happens more than you'd think. Dragons being the most well known
Mite be related to salmon being good brain food.
@@ckl9390 also salmon being tasty as fuck. also pink like brain. idk bruh, salmon good
It also bears similarities to Siegfried eating the heart of Fafnir.
I wonder... could it have anything to do with *Solomon's Wisdom*? Like, they heard about this super wise king named Solomon and throught retelling, the king part was lost and became a story about a wisdom granting fish?
Adventure Time has a LOT of Celtic Inspiration, I just love it, Finn/Fionn Mac Cumhail, there is no coincidence, its simply Beautiful.
I love the rendition of the credit song from adventure time at the end. Very nostalgic
Also the girl Finn ends up is with is the Huntress Wizard, a druid with deer antlers. Fionn's wife was a druid who could turn into a deer. Now I feel like creating a son for Finn the Human, based on Oisin.
@@Silverwind87adding to that, if you look in the video, she drew his druid mum as huntress wizard
"The apocalypse is gonna be way more interesting than we give it credit for"
People in 2020: ...
HA FUCKING HA
2021: WHAT IS TAKING THEM SO LONG?!?!?
I've come to the conclusion that the purpose of Irish pronunciation is to start arguments.
Truth, but at least now you know when someone says "don't be that guy", you know exactly who that guy is they are referring to.
Well, some of us have to try to learn it in school. Consider yourself lucky.
Siesta Time leaning it is a struggle but easy with an irish accent (sort of) i always find i funny irish words said in an american accent😂
That makes more sense than it should.
Believe me, I live in Ireland, and it is SO GODDAMN ANNOYING. Irish has so many different types of itself and I have to learn only one type of them all. To clarify, there is about 6. Yep, that's right. I only know 1 while my parents know another.
It freaking sucks.
5:28
Hollywood movie idea
Avengers: Endgame but with legendary "sleeping until time of need" figures vs an apocalyptic event (preferably alien invasion)
Aliens proceed to retreat on sight of the Irish Hero.
I said basically this 6 months ago and got 0 likes and comments. This one 5 months later has 20 and 3. I am confuse. I suppose it just wasnt the right time?
@@FrostSylph
It's no fault of yours. Endgame just wasn't out six months ago.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS
@@IWillYeah Do not underestimate the power of Holger Danske, protecter of the original Ireland, DENMARK!!
Coming back after playing SMT V
I literally pogged when this guy showed in SMT V, I also barely managed to cobble together a victory on my first try cause i did not have the right elements on my demons to hit his weaknesses besides my MC
"MacCool" I swear to God the people who create these myths aren't even trying anymore
SylenDraws Hey, that's my country you're talking about! And these myths were made in the Celtic Era. It's just pronounced like MacCool. Isn't always spelt that way.
It was supposed to be a joke
SylenDraws wait until you hear about McAwesome
Well I would suppose they aren't trying on account of, you know, the whole being dead thing.
Don't worry, they balance it out by giving half their heroes silly and overly long names like coo coockelain.
(Sucks thumb)
*I KNOW EVERYTHING*
Bryce McKenzie Finals week would be great!
CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS!
hahahaha
(takes thumb out of mouth)
Hey, where'd my smarts go?
Not gonna lie, this seems like a really balanced power, it would *suck* to be overburdened by the worlds entire knowledge all the time, so having a switch for it seems really good.
That drawing of Finn and Sive at 4:31 is sooo adorable! I love it
Its sadhbh
5:26
Me: and the avatar was stuck in an iceberg...
nice
Could be that the primary purpose of the deer curse was to have Sadhbh killed since deer is a common animal to be hunted. When Fionn decides not to kill her, and instead bring her back to his home, it broke the curse. Kind of like the love's first kiss breaks the sleeping death curse, but instead you take a deer in as a house guest.
I could actually see that
If only that could of happened on Johny Bravo.
ya us irish are weird
Could be. Also its the former house of a Druid. He might have put up wards and stuff.
So, this guy is basically the origin of "Awesome McCoolname" trope.
darkslayer366 Fionn's to McCumhaill to deal with shit like that being said about him
Not really seeing as Fionn mac Cumhaill is literally "Blondie son of Cumhall". As well of this, it's not quiet clear what Cumhall really means but it could be translated to "female slave" or "apple". So Fionn mac Cumhaill literally means "Blondie Appleson"
thanks for the clarification, but for the record i was trying to be funny.
*Awesome Mac Cumhaillname. :P
You've got to admit we Irish do have the best myths and legends
Yeah! You have lesbian couples ❤️❤️❤️
No. Greek mythology is superior and anyone who disagrees can get chained to a rock and have eagles peck out their liver for all eternity.
@@guyman1009 calm down edgelord
@@lyric7702 that dude is pro-rapist
(As in he's that guy who condoned *Zeus* sentencing Titan Prometheos to that exact torment)
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 he was just joking about unreasonably cruel punishments
1:15 they were companions
*gasp* oh my gosh they were "companions"
My favorite frame is the one at 1:16 where Fight-Mom is coaching Fionn in the background while Druid-Mom works in the foreground and watches discreetly with a small smile.
That shit just screams 'wholesome family moment'
I now want to see an Armageddon movie where all the people said to come and help humanity by legend actually comes back and fights and or makes peace.
567swimmey let me recommend this
m.fanfiction.net/s/10239811/1/Pencils-down-Death-rays-up
It does sound like an enteresting idea for a movie. What if we had differant heroes from around the world who made the promise to return should the world need help and all returned in the future and united together to fight a common threat?
So basically Fate/Grand Order
Aaaand there's a Cumhaill servant in Fate Grand Order
King sebastian from portugal...? would be a funny normal guy in the bunch LOL
that one guy in smt v
I just finished SMT 5 and Fionn was the MVP of my party.
So his name is Blondie McCool?
*quiet wheezing*
LOL
Pretty much if you directly translate it with foclóir.ie.
Pretty much all names of irish heroes is pretty much "Baddass Mc Coolname"
thekingofcardboard Well Blonde you see (yes I know some Irish)
Me: *in the middle of watching a 1 hour long video*
OSP: *uploads a video*
Me: *immediately clicks on the video*
BREAKING NEWS:
Old man climbs out of tree saying he is a "mage"
1:10 : *Seeing Bodhmall* Wait...
1:41 : "People started calling him 'Finn.'" WAIT.
I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED THE SHOW HOLY CRAP THAT IS AWESOME
When the apocalypse happens, I just imagine king Arthur, beowulf, Fionn, and every hero throughout time just riding up to save the world
God dammit should have happened in Heroes of Olympus
World is pretty shit currently so if they could all stop hitting that snooze button...
@@AlottaBoulchit Bad news. It can get worse. A lot worse. We haven't even gotten to the famine, pestilence, war and death parts yet.
@@dreadcthulhu5 👀
Pestilence: literally we're living through a pandemic right now. Can't get more Pestilence than that. No one's even hit the "second wave" yet. 😂
Famine: so many people are struggling to put food on the table even in the supposedly "mighty" usa. Not to mention all those countries where people have even less access to food and clean water. Meanwhile here in the states food industries were dumping milk or food is being tossed out in droves because it went unsold. 🙊 Wasting food while people are starving so they're creating conditions that encourage famine. The only part of famine we don't really have is bad conditions for growing crops and feeding livestock which WILL happen as folks continue to deny and prevent climate change. 😬
War: We're always at war in one form or another. We just haven't entered another world War. Yet. Don't forget how just back in January they were memeing about ww3 because of shit. We got North Korea shooting missiles and being aggressive, Russia doing shady shit. The US is still fucking around in the Middle East. And that's just a few things. 👩🚀🔫👨🚀
Death: People are dying all over from Corona alone.
The world is SHIT right now. Doesn't even matter if it can get worse cause it's already awful. These sleeping heroes need to wake the fuck up and get to work. 😂 They've had a long enough nap! CHOP 👏 CHOP 👏
@@AlottaBoulchit If you think this is a pandemic the Bubonic Plague, Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Cholera, Smallpox and Typhoid would like to have a word with you. The Bubonic Plague killed 1/3 of Europe and 75 to 200 million total. Spanish Flu killed 500 million. Smallpox killed 300 million. Typhoid kills around 216, 000 people a year. It's difficult to get solid, reliable numbers on Coronavirus. Everyone says something different and there have been more than a few speculations on exaggeration of the numbers since sites have reported funding increases for hospitals reporting high numbers. I'm sure more have survived than died though. Hell I'm sure my family all had it at one point as we have all had some serious sicknesses since November of last year and could have had it at any of those times. Guess what? We're all still alive from the youngest to the oldest and even those of us who have asthma are still kicking on. I guarantee the world is no more shit than it ever has been. You want to see a shitty world both, literally and figuratively speaking, go back to the Middle Ages.
3:00 reminds me of a Chinese story that my Chinese teacher told us about this kid who was studying for the imperial examination so in order to keep himself from falling asleep he would tie a string to his braid which he would also tie to the roof beams so that if he started falling asleep his hair would be pulled. He also would stab himself in the thigh with a knife to keep himself awake. I can’t remember what this story/virtue was called in Chinese but it was something along the lines of “stabbing thigh to study” or something like that.
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I hope the moral was "You shouldn't have to work yourself to death to win the approval of others." But since this is Imperial China we're talking about... I kinda doubt it.
It was 懸梁刺股 also it was two different guys
@@henrywong2725 Ah thank you for that. I always forget that idiom. I had also always thought they were the same guy. But then again Chinese figures of speech were never really my strong suit.
That’s really interesting actually. I’m Korean and I’ve heard about a famous Korean scholar doing the exact same thing
Me, in 2020 watching the world burn: ...
Merlin bursting out of an oak tree: OK so guys, funny story-
His good friend DIarmuid is well worth looking into as well! Legendary spear hunter and one of the wisest among the Fianna
Anyone else think that "Druid Mom" looks like Huntress Wizard?
I did!
IKR
i mean she did sing 'Run away with me' at the end which is an official Marceline version of ''come along with me
Yeah I thought so too.
well the main hero is a blond haired kid named Fin who's incredably inthusiatic about being a hero and is involved adventures that involves wizerds, sucking his thumb for infament knowledge and alot of other weird stuff just like in the show adventure time.
Soooooo maybe?
So Adventure Time is basically Irish Mythology?
NEAT!
OH SHIT ITS POST APOCALYPTIC IRELAND
@@oakishere8240 idk man rural Ireland is already pretty post apocalyptic
Was thinking this exact thing when she said finn means pale hair, when the druid looked like huntress wizard, its all coming together...
@@stephaniewilliams6756 Finn's mother Minerva is Irish as well. But I too never thought this much of a connection.
I love that every OSP video about Gaelic mythology or history has an aside about how hard Gaelic words are to pronounce.
The fact that ‘Sadhbh’ is pronounced ‘sheeve’ or ‘syve’ hurts me deeply. Linguistic shift go brrr
I know I am a few years late to the party, but I have to agree. The Finn and "Adventure time" parallel was the first thing I thought of as well. Hardly a stretch, keep up the grand work.
Wait a second...
Blond hair..
Complete badass at a young age...
Finn...
*cries in Adventure Time*
And that why Red sing the Marceline version of Come Along With Me....
Was thinking the same thing
**nods**
I’m pretty sure the name was explicitly based on Fionn mac Cumhaill’s.
These Gaelic legends sure seem to have a much higher proportion of female badass heroes and rulers than other mythologies do...
The Celts had little problem with fighting women.
Women fighting or in power were a part of Celtic culture, though not as common as fighting men. Aside from the mythological examples, just look at Queen Boudica in history.
It was a reflection of their culture. It wasn't as common as male examples, but they didn't really bat an eye when it did happen. I think we today should try to emulate the way that they didn't regard it as anything in particular and didn't make a fuss over gender.
Yeah, like one of the most powerful rulers in Irish mythology was queen Meabh (pronounced Maeve)
Hindu/Vedic mythology comes pretty close to Celtic mythology. Like their equivalent to Thor (that is, the badass monster hunter part) is a dark-skinned goddess that wears skulls and wields every weapon type you can think of. But she's also an awesome mom. It's Kali-Durga btw, the same goddess that inspired the death cult in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Ya boy is in SMT V now
Came back to this video since Fionn's going to be in Shin Megami Tensei V
Ayyy same
Can everyone just stop criticising her pronunciation and just accept how much work she puts into these videos
Like heck this is awesome hhH
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EVERYONE LIKE THIS COMMENT. PLEASE.
New idea: the king under the mountain cinematic universe.
Brendan Murphy I'm with it
Brendan Murphy I would unironically watch that.
Brendan Murphy
God, that sounds weirdly cool.
picture it a apparently demented old man in Wales starts claiming he is Merlin trying to convince anyone who will listen that he has been informed by Obeyon king of the Fay that the lord of the Fumoriea an evil race of giants are coming and that he has to travel across the world awakening the Kings of legend. slight issue they have been reincarnated and don't know it. plus there not the only ones as there greatest foes are also back and they know who they are and are trying to kill them. thinking the there tied as finally lost his marbles his grandkids Anghard and Dai decide there going to humour him and take him to Ireland, they meet the reincarnated Finn Machool being chased by a man the size of a house. begin volume 1
I kind of want to write a book where the Apocolypse happens and the various kings in mountains awaken. but that might just be the stormlight archive
Do it bro. It’ll sell as long as there’s a teen sent to go wake em all up, “the gathering” teen collects the most powerful sleeping hero’s of all time to fight the ancient (insert army here) of EVIL!
Well if this isnt the single greatest recommendations for stormlight archives
5:20 WW2: *happens*
All of these: I haven't met this country in my life
My favorite Fianna tale is when Fionn and all his bros get their butts saved by Best Boy Diarmuid and Best Dog Bran because they were all magically glued to the floor.
One of them, Conan Maol (I swear that is his name!), is sadly stuck harder than the rest because he laid down on his back. The only way to free him is to rip him off the ground, leaving behind his back skin. So they all quickly patch his grievous wound with a fresh sheet of black sheep’s hide they just skinned out back.
From then on, he grew black sheep’s wool on his back, and his friends would all shear him in the summer and knit socks for themselves from his backwool in the winter.
Oh my gosh!
So when the apocalypse hits we are gonna have an army of badass warriors? Yeah I think we can survive.
CrotakuReviews I can't wait for King Arthur chop a nuke in half, or Charlemagne fix the world-wide economy.
Yyyyeeeessss!!
I kinda wanna see this.
Don't forget a bunch of Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors and my personal favourite Vlad III the Impaler. ^_^
The Final Grail War?
Fate/series is basically this, except they end up causing the apocalypse.
As an Irish person 2 notes:
1) I completely understand your attitude towards the pronunciations. All in all you did pretty well imo for a non-irish person. (I admittedly have trouble with some things)
2) The Salmon part of Fionn's story I've heard a good bit and as a quick note, I've heard it much more often referred to the Salmon of Knowledge, as opposed to the Salmon of Wisdom.
4:09 i love that the “g” makes the “gay” sound because so I do I and it sounds like constant screaming
Question: what if all of them were true?
The apocalypse would be absolutely Gnarly with all of these warriors and magic beings coming back to help the world
The apocalypse is the climate change we've tried to ignore for half a century.
now i wanna become a legend so i can participate in the apocalypse/armageddon
_Neil Gaiman would like to know your location_
*cough* fate series *cough*
@@wickedgrimm3270 thinking about it, FGO plot makes a lot of more sense now, we were traveling through time to save humanity because a major evil entity brought its end, and with the help of great heroes of its history including fionn
Buy the new iMac Cumhaill light today
SylenDraws Someone get this person a medal. XD
Or you could buy yourself an i-Fionn.
Then you can take the deer girl back to your i-Pad...
😂🏅
I pre-ordered it but it didn't arrive today
Can I talk to your manager?
Guess which hero just made it into Shin Megami Tensei V?
SMT LETS GO!
Continuing on King in the Mountain Stories, the Estonian King in the Mountain has already been woken up, by a pair of children who woke him on a lark. He took a look around, got offended for being woken early and for no good reason, then went back to sleep, saying that even if Estonia were to be utterly eradicated he wasn't going to come back. Estonia had their chance and they blew it.
The Serbian one also got woken early, he apparently was awake long enough to learn about guns and went back to sleep saying he wasn't coming back until firearms went away as he thought they were too unfair in a fight.
Thomas Brady well, now we have to hope the others won't go back to sleep as soon as they hear from nukes
Hilarious
For more laughs while most European countries have one or two the British Isles are downright lousy with them.
Two historical Lords from the Scottish/English border lands Thomas the Rhymer and Harry Hotspur.
Wales has an ancient King called Bran the Blessed who's head is supposed to still be alive and was buried facing France. King Arthur dug it up because he felt Bran wasn't needed to protect Britain, he could do it himself.
Owain Lawgoch, the last male descendant of the house of Gwynned (Princes of Wales) is supposed to be hiding somewhere.
Owain Glyndwr, rose up against Edward I (Longshanks) last Welshman to claim the title of Prince of Wales, his body was never found and he never accepted a pardon.
Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond is supposed to be waiting somewhere in Ireland before he can ride out on a Silvershod horse and rule his lands in a new golden age.
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (different Gerald) According to legend, the Great Earl and his soldiers now slumber in a cavern beneath the Curragh of Kildare, ready to awaken to defend Ireland in her hour of need. The Earl rises once every seven years on May Day, and rides around the Curragh on his steed. When his horse's shoes are worn down to the thickness of a cat's ear, he will lead his army against the English, drive them out, and reign as king of Ireland for 40 years.
Harold Godwinson, Last Anglo-Saxon king of England, lost to William the Conqueror of Normandy, Said to have not been slain at Senlac by Anglo-Saxon legends, to come one day to liberate the English from the Norman yoke
Sir Francis Drake, Legendary Privateer in service to Queen Elizabeth and fought off the Spanish Armada, a drum he used when he circumnavigated the globe is said to have sounded at important periods of British Naval History, like when the German Navy surrendered in 1918 and during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. Legend claims that when he died Drake had the drum placed in his family's abbey and said that should England need him again to beat his drum and he would rise from his hammock (as he's often depicted sleeping in on some tropical island somewhere far away) and sail to England's rescue.
Imagine the clusterf**k if they all woke up at the same time....
That'd be the most interesting apocalypse story ever told
I know things are bleak in Eastern Europe, but dang that's depressing.
I was waiting for the Adventure Time reference! Was very pleased by your singing!
Huntress wizard
Finn from Adventure Time is 100% named after Fionn Mac Cumhaill
@@agungpriambodo1674 or you know is effectively named blondie. i can totally see joshua doing that
I remember watching this a few times and Oisín’s name being familiar but I couldn’t find out why and I just remembered the story of Oisín in Tir na nÓg and thought this was cool because we learn of his parents. This is wonderful.
He is also a very strong demon in SMT V
I am legit named after this guy
Cool ☺
Finn Dickinson: Daniel
Finn Mcool : the _cooler_ daniel
Better than Cáel at least.
Dope.
My name is Oisin.
Dad?
Nice to see Celtic Myths discussed on a channel that also gives the same effort to Greek Myths, or Roman ones.
Even though for once I can finally understand why some people get irritated by pronunciations.
“The apocalypse is gonna be way more interesting than we thought”
No, its actually pretty boring. I mean, King Aurthor did actually come back, as a brand of flour...
That was just Morgan ruining his image
All legendary heroes simultaneously waking up during apocalyptic times sounds like a cool concept for game/novel/movie/series